Winter here in Canada is much like life in general! You can choose to fight it, or can choose to embrace it. You can choose to love the diversity of the seasons, or you can choose to live somewhere else. It’s all choices!
We had our first significant snow fall yesterday. It was only a few inches, but it was sufficient to make everywhere look like a Christmas card picture. With a temperature of -5C/23F, and a light wind which dropped it to -12C/10F, we are still adjusting to appropriate clothing… but necessity dictates we get it figured out very soon.
Ray, by virtue of his “design”, seems to have no problems at all with the weather and bounces around outside like a kid playing with a new toy! His walk yesterday was a repeat of the snowy walks last Winter. He has a new spring in his step and makes leaping around seem effortless and clearly so much fun.
When we got back home, he seemed more inclined to stay in the back garden rather than go inside the house, so I went in and got my camera. Unfortunately, due to Ray’s excited state, and the fast diminishing light, my camera was slower than usual resulting in most pics being blurred. He did however stop a few times!
He was probably wondering when the really deep stuff is coming, and when our temperatures will drop below -30C/-22F? Of course, with a double fur coat fitting in all the right places, he has no concept of why we need an acclimatization period. He has no understanding of why we don’t just simply start wearing last winter’s clothing. Come to think of it… neither do I!
A New Direction Perhaps? 
We casted more votes for ya, Ray! Good luck buddy.
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Thanks you three! Woof! Ray.
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Gosh, Ray is a handsome one, isn’t he? And he’s a dog after my heart because I happen to love the snow too 😀
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Hi Jade, and welcome to my blog (well… shared Blog – with Ray). You may have noticed that there are a few Categories of Posts in addition to Dog Stories. My personal favorite (excluding Dog Stories of course) is Just Thinking… because it makes me think, and even some of my readers, and thinking is a good habit to get into! 🙂
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Ooh thank you for the suggestion! I’ll be sure to check out Just Thinking.
I’m glad to have found your blog through Mandi’s interview series. I hope you and Ray are enjoying the snow and keeping warm!!
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The snow is here and the temperature is dropping and, as we cannot impact the weather, we might as well enjoy it! 🙂
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Samantha and I are, like always, kind of envious of the winter atmosphere up there. It was 70 degrees here yesterday! Anyway…have a great day. And vote’s in! ☺️
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There is “something” very fresh and invigorating with sub-zero temperatures! (And thanks for the votes!). 🙂
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I am farther south. We don’t get THAT cold. Our first snow was a dusting. Pretty but short-lived. My cats are not fans of the cold. Even Morgan doesn’t go out to the screened porch much these days.
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Isn’t it wonderful that they have choices. Regardless of the weather, they will get fed! 🙂
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Dogs often appear to me like children. Most of all when it comes to snow. So sweet. But I also understand that they like that weather a lot more than the hot summer months!
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Yes. Ray is not so energetic in high temperature/humidity conditions! 🙂
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If you get the opportunity to take a video it would be amazing to see him playing in the snow 😊
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Will keep that in mind!
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Yay, thank you 😃
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🙂
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Who knows if Ray spent winters outside with little shelter pre-easy street life. And Ray is right. Grab that cold weather gear NOW. No time to acclimate in this crazy weather.
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The general consensus about Ray was that he could well have been a farm dog, and lived outside of the home but probably in a shed or a barn.
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I saw this just in time – Been MIA for a while 🙂 Does Ray like burying himself in the snow? With only his nose showing… My cousin has a husky who does that.
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Ray does not like being buried in anything apart from Fall leaves! He does however like running through snow and chasing snow balls! 🙂
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Ray’s got my vote, of course. Temperatures below -30C? SERIOUSLY? I just can’t get my head around that.
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Last February, we had a strong wind which gave us -38C. Those air masses tend to come straight from the arctic, and breathing is interesting because there is a sense of your nostrils freezing! Dress code is pretty much lots of layers covering pretty much everything! Of course those temperatures kill off a lot of bugs… microscopic and otherwise!!!
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